Hello from the City of Brotherly Love, where I’ve shuttled in for the day to give a talk about AI. Sadly, no AI has offered to bring me a cheesesteak. Yet.
Speaking of AI: As promised, our video interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman just posted.
You can watch it now—and below, I’ve shared a few behind-the-scenes moments, along with the biggest takeaways. 🎥 After that, the ins and outs of Apple’s new device-leasing program, which launched Tuesday. Plus, a LOLz about car screens and the history of the term “computer bug.” 🐜
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Why does ChatGPT’s voice need to sound so human? Why is the ChatGPT desktop app now a mess? What exactly is OpenAI planning to build next? And what happens when you invite ChatGPT to participate in a serious sit-down interview?
Last week, I interviewed Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and product chief, to find out all of that and more. Sam Altman may be the company’s public face, but Brockman is the man behind the curtain, helping shape everything from voice and the ChatGPT app to OpenAI’s coming hardware devices.
We also got into some recent industry news, including the Hugging Face hack and Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI. You can watch the interview now on YouTube, read the biggest takeaways below OR be an overachiever and do both.
This was supposed to be a short fun fact about how the first computer bug 🪲 was an actual bug. As the story goes, in 1947, Grace Hopper discovered a moth trapped in the relay contacts of the Harvard Mark II computer. She cleverly labeled it "the first actual case of a bug being found.” But a newsletter written by Bryan Lunduke says there’s a bug in that story; there’s proof of the term being used prior to 1947. 🐜
See you on Friday! This newsletter was written and curated by Joanna Stern and Adele Lowitz.
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